In an interview this week with the Tribune, Shannon was quoted as saying he was “proud of some of the accomplishments we made in Parkland” during his 2007-2012 tenure. He went on to say:

“But clearly we had some spectacular medical failures. And no one is proud of that, no one’s happy about that. … I’m very sorry that I didn’t see them across the finish line. They’ll be going through a re-survey, and I’m quite sure they will be successful this time.”

Shannon told the Tribune that he had worked closely with safety monitors installed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services after a 2011 inspection found patients were in “immediate jeopardy.” By April, Parkland is scheduled to undergo a re-inspection to test whether patient-care corrections are working.